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V.iii.9 Marius fait l’effet d’être mort à quelqu’un qui s’y connait

Denny trims this to “Marius Appears to be Dead”.

The third option is again supposed to end with "Dead" but ran up against the character limit again, alack!

Marius Seems To Be Dead To One Who Is A Good Judge: Wilbour, FMA

Marius Appears Dead To A Connoisseur: Wraxall 

Marius Produces On Some One Who Is A Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead: Hapgood

Marius Appears To Be Dead To One Who Is A Good Judge: Gray

Marius Appears to be Dead: Denny

Marius Looks To Be Dead To One Who Knows: Rose

To the Expert Eye, Marius Looks Dead: Donougher

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V.iii.8 Le pan de l’habit déchiré

The Torn Coat-Tail: Wilbour, Hapgood, Gray

The Torn Coat-Skirt: Wraxall

A Fragment of Torn Clothing: Denny

The Torn Coattail: FMA

The Torn Bit of Coat: Rose

The Torn Coat Flap: Donougher

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V.iii.7 Quelquefois on échoue où l’on croit débarquer

Sometimes We Get Aground When We Expect To Get Ashore: Wilbour, Gray

Sometimes One Is Stranded Where He Thinks To Land: Wraxall

One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking: Hapgood

Sometimes We Fail With Success in Sight: Denny

Sometimes We Go Aground When We Expect To Get Ashore: FMA

Sometimes We Have Run Aground When We Think We Have Landed: Rose

Sometimes When You Think You Have Reached Your Destination, You Have Run Aground: Donougher

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MARISETTE EDIT STEAL FOR THE LES MIS SHIPPING TOURNAMENT

Idk if edits are allowed for the point stealing? Sorry if not

Also, this is like my first serious edit, heheh

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@lesmisshippingshowdown Marisette steal!

they can be extremely funny actually. trust me

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an angel lost its wings today

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Hugo: If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from consigning something sublime to History.

Hapgood having just redacted said finest reply:

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Young Eponine and Azelma

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Please, somebody love him, he needs it

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He grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: “Excrément!”

...Hapgood.

I am judging the shit out of you.

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LM 2.1.15

'Le lecteur français voulant être respecté' okay mais je ne suis pas francais. donnez moi tous les plus beaux mots

and, of course, we cannot possibly acknowledge that wellington and blücher might, in any way, have won the battle of waterloo. that would be preposterous

that being said hugo does love hitting you in the face with The Parallels and The Point – every insignificant, unknown, obscure person matters; their deaths matter; the loss of life is monstruous but it is not a waste. the defeated barricade is victorious for having existed (books like this cannot be useless)

that being said, i'm not sure what point is being made with joseph the postman. is it meant as a throughline connecting all the insignificant people of history, a reminder of the heroism and the sublime that are found in all the insignificant places, a dig at those who forget? on the one hand that seems entirely plausible on the other hand i feel like there's a completely different angle you could come at that line from that i'm not seeing

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I know it's not Les Mis video, but this includes general Cambronne's 'Merde!' durng Volume 2.

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Cambronne. Volume 2, Book 1, Chapter 15.

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trying to imagine hugo & cambronne meeting like

hugo: omg cambronne, i'm SUCH a big fan, you were so badass for telling off the english & fate that one time, that disgusting and obliterating word—shit—

cambronne's family, who hugo mistook for cambronne himself: did you just say a potty word

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Reading this chapter, initially, I couldn’t make sense of Hugo’s praise of Cambronne as the sole victor of the Battle of Waterloo with just one swear word, which could offend sensitive French readers. “To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is to conquer!” And then it clicked with me, and I understood what it reminded me of: the first days of the Russian invasion in Ukraine and a threatening Russian warship approaching a small Ukrainian regiment on an isolated tiny island, demanding surrender. One of the soldiers of the doomed regiment thundered forth the now-famous words "Russian warship, go fuck yourself," and immediately became a hero and the victor of that lost battle. That’s it. Now I understand what Hugo meant.

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When I die let it be as Cambronne dies, a dumb joke on my lips and the blood of englishmen on my hands